While medicine, law, and other professions have made considerable progress, race and gender equity remains a major concern in architecture and planning, and among the organizations that oversee education and practice.

The School of Architecture and Planning is housed in historic Hayes and Crosby Halls on UB's South Campus. Our state-of-the-art facilities and academic resources include the latest technology in digital fabrication and computing to a specialized library for architecture and planning.

The School of Architecture and Planning was created half a century ago as a direct challenge to orthodox design education. We live those original principles today, committed to architecture and planning as interdisciplinary problem-solving enterprises, rooted in social engagement, nourished by research-in-practice, animated by making and doing, and committed to meeting the needs of clients, communities, and society in an increasingly complex urban world.

Whether testing ideas in Madrid or engaging the built landscape of Tokyo, the School of Architecture and Planning offers a wide range of life-changing study abroad and travel opportunities. Options include exchange programs, summer study abroad as well as research-specific and course-related travel opportunities both domestic and abroad.

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The School of Architecture and Planning, in partnership with the university, our alumni, our faculty and staff, and our philanthropic supporters, provides support to our undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to tuition scholarships, stipends for travel and supplies, and support for study abroad, our students, like our faculty, are actively engaged in teaching, research, and service—and are rewarded for their hard work.

The Dean’s Council is a leadership group of friends of the School of Architecture and Planning dedicated to raising the global profile of the school and advancing its academic programs and research enterprise. Members of the Dean’s Council include distinguished alumni and leading professionals, from firm executives to educators. As champions of the School of Architecture and Planning, members leverage their diverse expertise and leadership positions to forge new connections and build the school's network of support.

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In celebration of Banham’s legacy of experimental criticism, the fellowship is intended to support the research and creative activity of emerging practicitioners. Candidates are encouraged to propose a research trajectory that will be developed in tandem with a pedagogical agenda.

Nearly every year since 1990, a graduate architecture student has been called upon to step out of the studio and into the pulse of the school, to look up from their drawings and plans to the collective work of their peers. As Fred Wallace Brunkow Fellows, these students assume the highly esteemed role of editor for Intersight, the school’s annual journal of student work.

Whether testing ideas in Madrid or engaging the built landscape of Tokyo, the School of Architecture and Planning offers a wide range of life-changing study abroad and travel opportunities. Options include exchange programs, summer study abroad as well as research-specific and course-related travel opportunities both domestic and abroad.

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Our program will prepare you to see the full implications of what architecture does for the built environment, by proposing future forms of habitation that make aesthetic and cultural contributions to society and inspire social imagination.

In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The University at Buffalo is the only campus in the State University of New York system to offer the accredited professional master of architecture (MArch) degree.